Appendix A Setting up Your Computer’s IP Address
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6 Click t he Activat e butt on to apply the changes. The following screen displays. Click Yes to save
t he cha nges in a ll scr ee ns.
Figure 175 Red Hat 9.0: KDE: Net work Configurat ion: Act ivate
7 After t he network card rest art process is com plet e, m ake sure t he St at u s is Act ive in t he N e t w ork
Configura t ion screen.
Using Configuration Files
Follow the steps below t o edit the network configuration files and set your com put er I P address.
1 Assum ing that you have only one net work card on t he com put er, locat e the ifconfig-eth0
configurat ion file ( where eth0 is t he nam e of t he Ethernet card). Open the configuration file with
any plain t ext editor.
• I f you have a dynam ic I P addr ess, enter dhcp in t he BOOTPROTO= field. The following figure
shows an exam ple.
Figure 176 Red Hat 9.0: Dynam ic I P Address Set t ing in ifconfig- et h0
• I f you have a static I P address, enter static in t he BOOTPROTO= field. Type IPADDR= followed
by the I P address ( in dott ed decim al not ation) and type NETMASK= follow ed by t he subnet
m ask. The following exam ple shows an exam ple where the stat ic I P address is 192.168.1.10
and t he subnet m ask is 255.255.255.0.
Figure 177 Red Hat 9.0: St atic I P Address Set t ing in ifconfig- et h0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
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